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Sat, Feb 16, 13 at 9:09
| I acquired this arabicum last year.It was resting during winters in covered verandah. When I barerooted it a weak ago for repotting I observed that it's caudex had got rotted. After removing rotted roots only crown remains had sprinkled fungicide on cut part and plant is now resting any tips on reviving this adenium from experts are welcome weather at my place is cool with temp ranging between 12 to 23 celcius |
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| Trip_kc, I am sorry your arabicum wasn't doing well. You did the best you can do, but it is not easy to save this baby. Good luck.. Marie |
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| Thank you Marie for kind words but I am not going to give up so early. Is it possible to use remaining portion as cutting? I think we can get another plant if we are able to root it |
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| From that photo, your plant looks dead. If you cut the branches and if they are black like what the caudex look like in that photo, they would also be dead and would not be good for cuttings. A good branch for a cutting would be white when cut. |
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| Thanks Tolip Tropical for keen observation however I have to update that I had cut rotted caudex till the point I got white flesh it had turned black due to application of fungicide.Stems are stil alive and I am thinking of planting entire plant together maybe last try before declaring it is dead heard somewhere that adeniums are very hardy and survive from scratch |
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| I had tried rescuing adeniums that looked much better than yours and none had made it. Even cuttings of plants that had started to rot weren't of much use and none had rooted. Good to give a try and hope it works for you. |
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| Oh no! This would make me sad if that'd happened to any of my adeniums. Hope you are able to save it some how. Kirk |
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| Well, all I can say is "go for it, what have you got to lose?" If you do nothing, it will surely die. If you try to save it, it might die. It's worth a try... Good luck - Scott |
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| Do not plant it and especially do not water it. Tie it with a woman's nylon sock or similar soft synthetic material somewhere between the caudex and the branches and hang it somewhere warm with good air circulation and out if direct sunlight. In a couple of months (not weeks, months), you may see bumps on the end of the caudex, let them develop a bit and only then plant it, even then use a very fast draining mix and avoid all peat, cactus mixes and similar.water only by spraying lightly until it develops true feeder roots, or it will just rot again. Your plant has no roots and no root tissue right now, keep that in mind. Thats what i would do anyhow, you decide for yourself. Good luck! |
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| P.S. sometimes adeniums, especially arabicums are root shaped by cutting off the entire root system and doing as i wrote above. This allows the grower to form the roots from scratch, because they develop a ton of new roots from bumps all the same size. Many of the large crawling (crab) adeniums you can see in thai exibitions were developed that way, who is to say yours can't do it too. The only thing that worries me is that blackening from fungicide, i am worried you may have burned the soul out of it with that, but nothing can be done now, at least it will be protected from fungus. |
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| Thanks Kirk and Scott got the point going to give the plant another try and hope tricks suggested by Scott work |
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- Posted by greenclaws UKzone8a (My Page) on Mon, Feb 18, 13 at 16:48
| Is what remains if the caudex hollow, it looks as if it is in the picture and only an outer rim is remaining? Gill from the UK. |
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- Posted by greenclaws UKzone8a (My Page) on Thu, Feb 28, 13 at 10:58
| Bump.......Just wondering what has happened to the OP and the aliling Arabicum...things do not look good to me. Gill from the UK. |
This post was edited by greenclaws on Thu, Feb 28, 13 at 10:59
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